![]() ![]() The mood of the nation is turning towards the future – but can these three women ever let go of the past?Īlthough Hettie, Ada and Evelyn initially seem to have little or nothing to connect them, connections slowly become apparent, the deeper into their stories and the novel you get. As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women’s lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won’t speak Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son’s death, and is still waiting for him to come home. Anna Hope’s debut novel, Wake, depicts a mere five days in 1920 Britain but it’s an important period in the post-First World War world, covering as it does the repatriation of the Unknown Soldier from the battlefields of France to his final resting place at Westminster Abbey, and what happens in the lives of three women in London. ![]()
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